Is Civility The Management Tool That We All Need?
Managers have different ways to try to motivate their teams. Some use fear. However, the smart ones use civility in order to get the most out of their teams
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How Should Managers Be Practicing Transparency?
The goal of every manager is to become a respected manager. This is a fine goal to have, but just exactly how can we make this happen? It turns out that one important step in getting your team to respect you is for you to make the practice of transparency important. Why should you bother … Read more
3 Ways That Managers Can Improve Their Leadership Skills
So congratulations, as a manager you are already a leader. However, if you are like most of us you could probably become a better leader. If you took the time to take a look at all of your manager skills, where do you think that your biggest leadership challenge lies? The way that you can … Read more
How IT Managers Deal With The “N” Word – “Nepotism”
Just exactly how did you get your IT manager job? Did you get it because you worked hard and you showed the powers that be that you had IT manager skills and just how good of a leader you could be so that they promoted you? Or did you get promoted because of who you … Read more
IT Managers Need To Understand Why Staff Stay – And Why They Leave
As an IT manager, your job is to lead a team and accomplish tasks. Sounds simple enough, doesn’t it? You can only do this if the team that you are managing stays together. If people start to leave, it’s disruptive when they leave and you are going to be distracted as you work to fill … Read more